Not only did she not discipline those two members of AGS, she promoted one of them. You couldn't make it up. However I personally believe she couldn't discipline them because they would make it known she told them to do it. Also on Clare Byrne last night the taxi driver that was attacked exposed other absolute lies discrediting McCabe told to her about her own case from other members of the force, can't bring myself to give them the honour of calling them Gardai. The whole thing is just disgusting.

Good idea re emailing TDs. They are all so busy saving their own skins, i don't think McCabe is very high on their priorities.

Katherine zappone - President Trump continues to roll out policies, that are highly questionable and in this case really blocking people s equality and freedom".Take a look closer to home, Katherine. Things are stinking right under your nose.

I'm raging with Zappone. I honestly thought she was one of the good ones. Obviously as bad as the bloody rest of them. I hope this does bring the government down but who who we vote for? They are all as bad. That poor man and his family. We can trust nobody. That Garda commissioner should be made step down. There should not be an option for her anymore. Arrogant woman to even think she has a right to stay in her job.

The Gardai in the words of their own chief were 'disgusted' by McCabe displaying their dirty laundry. Why is it that hiding their dirty laundry is far more important to them than cleaning it, important enough to destroy a good man and his family over it. Where are all the good gardai on this subject. They should be really horrified from both their angle as guardians of law and order and also because that's what's facing themselves if they don't toe the company line. And the relationship between the Gardai and Tusla is just way too cosy if Tusla was the vehicle used to blacken him. Accidental copying and pasting my hat. Yeah, like you're going to copy and paste any words at all about a serious child sex abuse case, how lazy and uninterested in the words of your client is that, never mind copying and pasting into a closed case, coincidentally against a man who is causing the Gardai embarassment ? But of course there is great value in having a Tusla file on him. You only have to make a few cryptic remarks to a reporter and then innocently say "look I'm saying nothing but maybe check with Tusla about golden boy McCabe" and bingo you've created all sorts of doubts about him and the reporter doesn't want to be in McCabe's team any more.

The disciplined garda had no problems until McCabe made an allegation of misconduct -McCabe was reporting wrong doing before the 'whistleblower' case.

ETA - To believe it was a 'clerical error' you have to believe that, someone, 'accidently', searched for and resurrected the original file on McCabe with the charges by the reprimanded Garda (that were ruled as having no merit and not even a criminal act in the first place) - and, ...'accidently', searched for and opened up another alleged offenders file (a totally different case) at the same time (just coincidentally) - and,... copied that charge and interview with the victim from this other alleged offenders case - and,... then opened, 'accidently', the old file on McCabe at the same time (for no reason just to suck eggs) - and,... 'accidently', pasted someone else's charges of a very very serious nature onto McCabe's file - and,... saved and closed McCabe's file with his case name and file number on it (but not realising it was his file) and,....then saved and closed the other file in the same way not realising what they were doing or that they had 2 different files opened at the same time - and,....forget about it for 9 months or so while it was somehow passed around 'accidently'. Bananas Ted.

Why was someone poking around again in McCabes file when the case was closed and already investigated - why would you open it 'accidently' or otherwise again?

The alleged victim had never mentioned McCabe - so why think to involve him?

the file wasn't lying around and this counsellor did not accidently fall onto McCabe's file from a height, unknowingly transferring the wrong information.

A suspicious mind would think that there had to be some intent to discredit or keep someone quiet. I hope I am wrong - it is scary stuff.

cecily98, when the original accusation was made against him ( on behalf of a child whose father,a colleague of McCabes, just happened to have been disciplined by McCabe for poor conduct 6 months earlier ), It was Maurice McCabe himself that insisted the complaint be fully and properly investigated and the DPP found it to be baseless. As for why he stayed silent for years and then became a whistleblower, he didn't say silent actually. But he found his local complaints were going nowhere apart from being turned against himself. So like all whistleblowers I guess he reached a point where he couldn't stick it anymore. The sad thing imo is that just like the Church when the establishment protect the bad eggs, the reputations of the good guys go down the drain also.

My understanding is that McCabe made a serious complaint against a garda colleague and this was instrumental in having this member of the Garda being reprimanded (disciplinary sanction) during the year later this garda then all of a sudden made an allegation against McCabe.about his daughter. (whistleblowing was not just about penalty points but other very serious incidents as well)

the department of prosecutions investigated and confirmed the allegation had no merit and the claims did not even constitute a crime in the first place.. Hence why a file existed on McCabe in the first place.

The claim of sexual abuse in the headlines at the moment concerns a different alleged abuser and his alleged victim - McCabe has no involvement but he was named in the case as the abuser by 'clerical error' and it was passed around.

The charge of sexual abuse was never made against Garda McCabe in the first place, it was made against a different individual-but the charge was 'accidentally pasted' onto his file by 'clerical error' where it sat for nearly a year during what was the most prolific time of the whistleblowers accusations..

Exactly Bertha, way too much of a coincidence to be believable. But let's say you suspend disbelief for a minute and imagine a file was created on him erroneously but in good faith. Then why was it never acted on by Tusla or the gardai but instead just passed around between the very people he was in dispute with. After all when there is a very serious allegation of sexual abuse,wouldn't you hope it would be dealt with in the most serious manner. But here nothing was done apart from passing it around to smear him. I know it was false but just saying they can't have it both ways, either they knew it was false but used it as if it was true or else they did nothing about what they believed to be a serious allegation.

hmm why did Tulsa every have a case opened on him? What caused him to turn whistleblower after years in force? Why did he keep silent for years. Someone in an earlier post said he should be running the country - I think not!

I don't believe that charges of sexual abuse against Garda McCabe were accidently pasted onto his file. It takes time to put a file together against someone and to reactivate it. - There was intent behind it and you can bet your breeches on it.

Now Tusla have said that the 'counsellor' involved in putting the file together was not even an employee of the HSE or Tusla but from an agency - They are covering their asses and someone knows something in Tusla to make them want to cover their asses. iykwim.

Also, why did minister Zappone keep quiet about her knowledge of this incident. How many more knew about this?

There has been an intent to shut Garda McCabe down from day one from the moment he made a complaint , to being banned from using the Garda pulse system ( two senior Gardai calling to his home to inform him that him they removed his access from pulse), the Alan Shatter debacle, the firing of the journalist from the Independent because she would not drop the story, the back room whispering smear campaign against him and the charges of sexual abuse against him that was common knowledge to everyone but Garda McCabe himself. (to name but a few)

There is no interest in day one to investigate this properly it has been an exercise in cover up and attempts at silencing by harassment and discrediting. And I have no confidence that this will ever be investigated properly - the old club will bandy around and protect themselves.

There has been very dirty play here by the very top branch of the Garda. And Tusla and other agencies of the state think the Irish people are thick boyo's because they believe that the excuse of 'a clerical error' will be accepted and the excuse that contents of the file was accidently leaked to journalists will be accepted.

If you accept the excuse of a 'clerical error' then, you have accepted that an innocent coincidence of circumstances occurred here and you somehow cannot see the cover up and dirty politics that is going on at the moment. - i.e. you would have to be dopey.

These so called internal reviews need to be done away with they are just exercises in whitewashing. McCabe is the good guy in all this, he has tried to do his duty, which is more than can be said for others involved in this, and I hope his family can move on from this and resume their lives.

And now Maurice McCabe will probably sue the State, I wouldn't blame him, and who will pay ? Not the people who did all the wrongdoing against him, at least some of it knowingly but us the poor fools that didn't have hand, act or part in it will foot the bill as usual. Should come out of the top brasses pensions !

Does this mean that Tuslas strings are bing pulled by someone in the Garda Siochana.

Detective McCabe was told in 2014 that a file shouldn't have been opened on him and his family, his family include adult children.He then gets a letter in 2015 asking him to attend Tusla to be interviewed.

Why wasnt he arrested when Tusla sent the file to the Gardai, I thought by Law they have to investigate allegations of child abuse, who was the counsellor who reported McCabe to Tusla.

The Garda Commissioner should a make a public statement to day on this matter.She in entitled to her good name until proven guilty but we are entitled to hear what she has to say about all of this.

At the same time that ex Commissioner Callanan was using the word 'disgusting' about Maurice McCabe's whistleblowing, he (Callanan) himself sat in a car with TD John McGuinness and told him that McCabe was a child abuser. Now Callanan either knew at the time there was no truth to it which is just apalling to knowlingly blacken McCabe's name or if he didn't know it was false information, why was McCabe never questioned by the gardai over this very serious allegation and besides what was the Garda Commissioner, the highest garda in the land, doing meeting furtively with a TD in a car park and passing on alleged information. So much wrong about this whole thing.

That's right Maryaw, was only thinking about that Donegal night club owner being framed by gardai when reading this. They set up drug dealing in his club wasn't it? I can't remember why but it was really shocking at the time and barely a mention now. Nothing surprises me anymore.

Is it believable that just at the very time when Maurice McCabe was causing havoc, in the eyes of the public, about Garda corruption, extremely damaging (and completely false) words are added to an old Tusla file against him ? (The fact there was an old file on him already being somewhat suspicious imo) . How would a social worker accidently copy and paste information about a presumably current sexual crime into a file from six (i think) years earlier ? I could maybe understand info from one current file getting into another current file but McCabe's file was a closed case from years before so the question is - who was making it a current concern ?

ais.c, Years previously Maurice McCabe made some complaint about a colleague and as a result that colleague was disciplined. Six months later that same colleague made a complaint that Maurice McCabe had rubbed up against his daughter inappropiately when she was playing at his house as a young child years earlier. The case went no further as was not seen as being provable/credible (not sure which). Roll on a few years and now Maurice McCabe has come out as a whistleblower and lo and behold in Tusla offices of all places a completely false accusation was copied and pasted from another file into a file about Maurice McCabe accusing him of sexually abusing a child years ago, that he sexually penetrated the child. Subsequently Tusla said this was a clerical error ie it never happened with respect to Maurice McCabe but by then the information was doing the rounds & according to a high up garda, forget his name, who himself is a whistleblower now, he and others were told from the top to spread this false smear against M McCabe. Basically to discredit him so no one would listen to his whistleblowing information. Think that's it. It is very disturbing that during the time M McCabe was in dispute with the Gardai, this totally false allegation about him was literally made up against him by Tusla. Not sure they'll get away with 'clerical error' on this one.

Haven't had a proper chance to catch up on what Howlin said and what has been alleged. But am I correct in saying that an allegation of abuse was made against him to Tusla? Tusla passed on this allegation to the Gardai but the Gardai did nothing about it, and nobody told Maurice McCabe about it either? And then Tusla blamed it on a clerical error? A clerical error? All very dubious. O'Sullivan does not come out of this looking trustworthy.

It was really disturbing watching what that poor man and his family have been through. The credibility of Tulsa will be questioned and it really upsets me to think that genuine abusers may get away with abuse because of how they went about trying to frame an innocent man.

Absolutely shocked hearing all that. That family must be in bits but l hope tonight they see that people are horrified at their situation. Also only realising that the commissioner put her own husband on a team investigating some aspects of this case. That's mad.